Learning Task 1: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if not. 1. Emotional expression became an important element in most creative products of Romantic artists and composers. 2. Composers in the Romantic period used their music to try to describe a specific place, item, person or idea this was called programme music. 3. The use of elaborate harmonic progressions and the large ranges of dynamics and pitch became a common style in compositions. 4. Big expansion in the size of orchestras and in the types of instruments. 5. There are four primary artistic inspirations of Romantic Era music and one of this is conveying extreme emotional states, taken from a literary character or situation or struggle of being human.